"Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is..." - Quote by Thomas Paine
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
More by Thomas Paine
“The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong.”
“I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair of seeing an Abolition of the infernal trafic in Negroes - we must push that matter further on your side the water - I wish that a few well instructed Negroes could be sent among their Brethren in Bondage, for until they are enabled to take their own part nothing will be done.”
“The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.”
More on Knowledge
“Knowledge is the antidote to fear”
“Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.”
“There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.”
More on Duty
“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”
“Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.”
“Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.”